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- From: pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it (Francesco Potorti`)
- Subject: repeatable illegal instruction bug in emacs 18.57
- Message-ID: <m0mK5gd-0001EJC@fly.cnuce.cnr.IT>
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- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:55:00 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I defined a function to speed up setting the debug-on-error flag:
-
- (defun debug ()
- (interactive)
- (setq debug-on-error t))
-
- Unfortunately, it appears that 'debug' is already defined in debug.el:
-
- (defun debug (&rest debugger-args)
- ...
-
- When I type M-x debug, then cause an error (by typing "M-< C-b", for
- example) emacs hangs for a while, then dumps core. I'd normally expect
- this to stop after a short time, saying "Lisp nesting exceeds
- max-lisp-eval-depth", but it doesn't in this case.
-
- The same happens on a Motorola Delta running emacs 18.58.
- The emacs process begins to slowly eat up memory until it dumps core.
- The whole story is very slow: every ~1 min. the process size increases by
- approx. 800Kbytes.
-
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